Word: johannes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tune this season has the lilt of last season's Yours for a Song (reminiscent of Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods), and much like last year's are the smooth water ballets, the adroit diving acts, the custard-pie antics ashore & afloat. But by using scenes from the San Francisco...
...August 1703, "by the most gracious privilege of His Imperial Roman Majesty," a Viennese printer, one Johann Baptist Schönwetter (John Baptist Lovelyweather), started a court paper called Diarium. Vienna was capital of the Holy Roman Empire; Leopold I was Emperor. Said Printer Schönwetter of his paper: "It contains everything notable which occurs from day to day in this town of Vienna, as well as in other places all over the world...
...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...
...acoustics) lives a small brown bat. During Metropolitan Opera visits to the Academy, the bat nearly flew into the broad mouth of Tenor Beniamino Gigli; once it flew rings around Basso Feodor Chaliapin. Last week, by lying low, the bat muffed a punnish chance-a performance of Johann Strauss's bubbling, rollicking The Bat (Die Fledermaus), by the best troupe Philadelphia has had in years...
Featuring three pieces by Johann S. Bach and others by Schoidt and Hanff, W. Judson Rand, Jr., organist at Christ Church in Cambridge, will give an organ recital tonight in the Germanic Museum...